White Hall shooting victim identified

Police have identified the man shot in his home near White Hall Sunday afternoon as 60-year-old John Early.

According to a release from the Greene County Sheriff’s Department, police responded to a report of a man with a gunshot wound on Patterson Road about 3 miles west of White Hall at 2:52 p.m. Officers found Early with a gunshot wound to his chest.

Paramedics rushed Early to Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital in nearby Carrollton and then airlifted him to Memorial Medical Center in Springfield. He was listed in critical condition there Tuesday.

According to the release, a woman who shared the residence with the man was present at the time of the shooting, but no arrest had been made.

Sheriff Rob McMillen said Monday officials were trying to determine whether the gunshot was self-inflicted. Messages left with his office Tuesday weren’t returned.